PALMER TWP., Pa. – One dad in Northampton County is taking a new spin on free little libraries.<\/p>\n
Instead of books, he’s created a way for people to trade collectible toy cars.<\/p>\n
Posted along Stones Crossing Road in Palmer Township stands a box full of collectible toy cars, planes and busses.<\/p>\n
“We have new ones, old ones some from the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s in there,” says Kevin Kroll, Founder of Stones Crossing Matchbox Exchange.<\/p>\n
It all started with Kevin Kroll and his son and their shared love of matchbox.<\/p>\n
“No matter what age, no matter what your background is, you had matchbox you grew up with them, your parents had them,” says Kroll.<\/p>\n
And so came the stones crossing matchbox exchange.<\/p>\n
“Take one leave one,” says Kroll.<\/p>\n
Word about the exchange got around quickly through the neighborhood with people stopping by at all hours, some even donating their own collections.<\/p>\n
“Now I was off at work, and he stopped at the camera and says, \u2018I’m gonna leave your cars there,\u2019 and all I heard was thump and thump, and there’s a very large tote… It was probably close to 150, 200 pounds,” says Kroll.<\/p>\n
Kroll has taken the swap to social media sharing the reactions of people stopping by.<\/p>\n
And the smiles on people’s faces, say it all.<\/p>\n
“The whole thought is to just have fun, that’s why the box says it. It’s just to have fun,” says Kroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALMER TWP., Pa. – One dad in Northampton County is taking a new spin on free little libraries.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,74530,108110,108114,108113,108111,108107,2182,108112,108109,108108],"class_list":["post-253406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-collectibles","tag-community-sharing","tag-family-activity","tag-free-little-library","tag-kevin-kroll","tag-matchbox-cars","tag-palmer-township","tag-stones-crossing","tag-toy-cars","tag-toy-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}